Nearly three years have passed since the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, and there still seems to be no substantial attempt on the part of the mainstream people or media to explain or discover the true causes of these attacks. The media and politicians around the world project the idea that the 911 attacks were committed purely out of Islamic extremism, out of envy and hatred for America’s many, “freedoms.” But in fact if the freedoms that the United States government offers it’s citizens are minimal compared to most of the other world democracies; such as the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan, this fact alone implies that there must be some motivation on the part of Arab terrorists wishing to do harm to the United States. The true causes of terrorism against America are in fact the interventions, bombings and funding of violent regimes on the part of the American government which has taken place now for over fifty years. Here in this article I will list most of these actions on the part of the United states.

Serving whom? - "These people are not concerned about the welfare of our children or the country; they are the representatives of imperialism, empire, and Plutocracy; and they are in search of cannon fodder."

Ethiopia's CIA-backed troops will be home from Somalia within weeks they say. Leaving Somalia, with a few criminal warlords as 'government'. Some of the CIA-paid warlords are responsible for the U.S. defeat in 1993, dragging US Marine's corpses through the streets of Mogadishu. Now UN troops make the news raping children in Sudan. They rape more than that.

Ethiopia's CIA-backed troops will be home from Somalia within weeks. Leaving it to some criminal Somali warlords as 'government'. Some of the CIA paid warlords are responsible for the U.S. defeat in 1993, dragging US marine's corpses through the streets of Mogadishu. And UN troops raping children.

HR comment: The Nation is a source of information we normally never quote. This is on the other hand a good piece of 'alibi journalism' for the editors of The Nation. Which will not help: we have a memory. It concerns the protest in Beirut, something which should happen as soon as is possible in all US junta colonies.

The illegal US junta's invasion of Iraq and the following genocide: "This supreme international crime started on 20 March 2003 and it’s still being committed. Iraq is an occupied country without sovereignty where terrorists and mass murderers compose its quisling sectarian government."

This should come as no surprise: "All Israeli governments have a long and disturbing record of conducting targeted assassinations in Israel and abroad as it suited them against all persons thought to be a threat to the Jewish state."

The failed UN/US intervention of 1993 led directly to the triumph of the warlords, who plundered, raped, and murdered their way through the streets of Mogadishu, the Somalian capital, and reduced the country to Mad Max territory. The same deadly chaos - made in the US - now again foments more hate.

"The press must not be allowed to make this about Ethiopia, or Ethiopia violating the territorial integrity of Somalia,” The same violations as the US junta is guilty of in neighboring Sudan which still refuses an invasion by twenty-two-thousand (22.000) US troops, so called "peace keepers"

HR comment: As an in Holland born foreign correspondent I've also for ten years lived in the North Africa/Mideast area, trying to understand and 'cover' the geopolical changes. I think this list is very small but fully correct.

The Newsweek item below is typical of 'alibi journalism': 'But we also published criticism.' they'll whine in defense of their betrayel at coming war crimes tribunals. But again taking part in the run up to the planned war with Iran. After a US made 'UN resolution' yesterday made Iran stop the IAEA inspections too...

The comment concerns a very interesting and good article by american author Gore Vidal titled "I'm Jealous of Cuba": An Interview with Gore Vidal by Rosa Miriam Elizalde in "Counterpunch" and bylined Havana. An excellent article.

The US junta after 18 years wants the military draft again. The war machine managers call it a 'test' but are gearing up for a draft. "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Good-bye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam."

But this involves using a penny stock scam to bribe politicians on an international scale,in Africa. Reminescent of Titan Corporation's involvement in Africa not long ago.However I would still say for all the Louisiana and Beltway and African intrigue involved with William Jefferson's and Vernon L. Jackson's Nigerian venture with their U.S. penny stock corporation iGate Inc,that ex Republican turned Democrat Tim Mahoney 's VFIN is a much larger international fraud.

Soon it will be announced that SHELL in Russia has made an energy 'deal' with Putin's government. But it is 'an offer they can't refuse'. SHELL lost this important geopolitical fight for energy resources and must surrender control over Sakhalin-2, the only foreign owned huge oil and gas fields in Siberia.

Sources with a U.S. Delegation in Beijing have told The Hal Turner Show the Chinese government has informed visiting Bush Administration officials they intend to dump One TRILLION U.S. Dollars from China's Currency Reserves and convert those funds into Euros, gold and silver.*

Congrats Israeli President Moshe Katsav,I thought you and Islamic charity money laundering suspect Mohamed Hadid and known penny stock scheister Michael Zwebner were only running a fraud,a U.S. penny stock pump and dump.What do I know ?

Downing Street faced accusations of trying to "bury bad news" by using the release of the 'report' on the death Diana, Princess of Wales, to overshadow a two-hour grilling of the Prime Minister by police as part of the "cash-for-honours" investigation. Blair's aides lied to limit the damage, at first denying there had been an approach by the police.

"James Baker warned that the commission's report "should not be treated like a fruit salad, picking this, rejecting that." That missed the point. We are not worried that the commission's report is a fruit salad, but that the guy they wrote it for is."

"I thought I was safe because I wasn't visibly "involved" in politics, in the meantime sheltering desperate fugitives in my home or helping them over embassy walls in search of asylum. I thought that, if I were arrested, I could explain that I was acting out of humanitarian motives. Apparently, I was somewhere on the moon."

General Pinochet - who had me kicked out of Chile in June 1974 - in the too many following years embezzled tens of millions of dollars. He hid them - he thought - in 128 (one-hundred-and-twenty-eight) bank accounts, most of them in the internationally known 'Bank for Crooks & Spooks' the Riggs bank.

Speaking during a news conference in the Grand Serail in response to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech on Thursday, Siniora said the Hizbullah chief's "position yesterday has shown that he is attempting a coup, or at least he is threatening to carry one out."

An unconfirmed report said three security men were killed and several others wounded when they tried to challenge the militants. The Tide sources also indicated that the militants extended their unholy act to the houses of some prominent citizens of the area by setting them ablaze.

The problem with all those 'sources' is governments paying for the information being spread. As legendary US journalist I.F. Stone said 4 decades ago: "All governments lie." Based on my 4 decades of experience with many governments and their 'advisers' one can only confirm that Izzy Stone was totally right. They all lie and people die.

Seymour Hersh: "U.S. and Israeli special forces commandos are already operating on the ground inside the country, planting site markers for future bombings, and organizing sabotage operations by Kurds, Baluchis, and Azeris." Netanyahu was even more blunt: "It's 1938, and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs."